Forget the nonsense about privacy. Kids, face it, you have no privacy left. The real issue here is that biometric security simply isnt. Unlike a public key method or even a 4 digit pin, once someone figures out how to mimic your iris, your thumbprint, your voiceprint (and of course someone will) you can't go and get a new eye, hand or voicebox now can you? One need merely 1) invent a device that can mimic arbitrary iris'es sufficiently for the scanner (ok maybe this isn't a small feat but it will happen) 2) pull off the traditional fake ATM scam that has worked since the beginning to collect pin numbers, this time collecting iris prints. voila, account access!
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This is not funny. This is terrifyingly prophetic
Forget the nonsense about privacy. Kids, face it, you have no privacy left. The real issue here is that biometric security simply isnt. Unlike a public key method or even a 4 digit pin, once someone figures out how to mimic your iris, your thumbprint, your voiceprint (and of course someone will) you can't go and get a new eye, hand or voicebox now can you? One need merely 1) invent a device that can mimic arbitrary iris'es sufficiently for the scanner (ok maybe this isn't a small feat but it will happen) 2) pull off the traditional fake ATM scam that has worked since the beginning to collect pin numbers, this time collecting iris prints. voila, account access!